SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3588, 21 October 1905, Page 4

SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

The Small Kinds Are RlskMt 1* ehftiine Matter and the S®*< V*9t» for the Owr.wtr. ■ At a discussion upon sugar beets reeently among the members of ft Wisconsin farmer:;’ institute Prof. W. A. Henry, dean of thfr-Wiiconsin agricultural college, said, concerning the meo of beets: ‘The best sugar beets waigh about two pound* each. Do not try, to grow great, large beets, thinking they are the best. Years- ago when I Was looking up the beet sugar question in California I had a conversation with some of the officials of the Southern Pacific Hail road company in their office in Sau Francisco. I was urging upon them the importance of beet sugar protraction in California. Col. Crocker, the leader, showed much indifference, saying that he had Host $50,000 in trying to promote this very enterprise. I told him that that was not necessarily a reason, why beet sugar production tfould not yet be profitable. Later on in our conversation, when talking about Cftii* forma's wonderful productions, he said that in his experiments he had grown beets that weighed 20 or SOpoundte each. As soon as he told me this I replied: There, Col. Crocker, is on* of the reasons your factory failed. You thought large beets were good baete, whan in truth they are poor beets, and’ helped! wreck your factory. You should have tried to produce small beets, but many to the acre; and such, if grown properly, would have been rich in sugar, and these would have brought you success instead of failure.’ ”